Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Wawayanda top those of 94% of U.S. towns
5.0% of residents are in poverty (New York 14.0%). The two grades for Wawayanda are B+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. About one in ten work in Wawayanda; the top destination outside it is Wallkill (14%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Wawayanda at work: what stands out
Jobs & income in Wawayanda: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Wawayanda is better than 69% of U.S. towns, #261 of 758 in New York. Household income holds Wawayanda’s grade up ($143,017, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (6.9%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Wawayanda could be anywhere from B to A.
The daily commute in and out of Wawayanda
On a workday 3,066 residents head out to work, 281 work right here, and 2,172 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,500 people are in Wawayanda on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
0.73 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Wawayanda: the destinations
Where Wawayanda clocks in
14% of workers
13% of workers
9% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
The kinds of work in Wawayanda
2,453 jobs are based in Wawayanda.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wawayanda, 2013 → 2023: 2,496 → 2,453. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Wawayanda’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 34 minutes to work from Wawayanda
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wawayanda workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,031 commuters (the 8% who work from home are left out). Across New York: 57% drive alone, 25% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Half of Wawayanda commutes less than 16 miles
About 22% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Wawayanda start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wawayanda is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns, #658 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,302 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.0% of Wawayanda households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Wawayanda’s commuters take a bus or train.
Wawayanda next to U.S. towns of 5,900 to 11,400: 1,184th of 2,981 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 112 | East Rockaway NY | 10,096 | $125K | 2.6% | 3.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,182 | Yorkshire VA | 9,782 | $113K | 17.8% | 3.9% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,183 | Pacific WA | 7,056 | $116K | 13.8% | 4.6% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,184 | Wawayanda NY | 8,428 | $143K | 5.0% | 6.9% | 8% | B+ |
| 1,185 | Balm FL | 7,181 | $115K | 2.2% | 9.2% | <1% | B+ |
| 1,186 | Little Ferry NJ | 11,099 | $86K | 6.3% | 7.6% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,981 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Wawayanda, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door is work for 33% of Wawayanda
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wawayanda workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wawayanda | – | B+ | C | 34 min | $143,017 |
| Goshen | 9% | B+ | A | 37 min | $121,442 |
| Minisink | under 2% | B+ | C | 38 min | $127,690 |
| Warwick | 3% | B+ | A− | 40 min | $119,328 |
| Middletown | 7% | C+ | A | 36 min | $79,346 |
| Greenville | under 2% | A− | D− | 38 min | $122,521 |
| Wallkill | 14% | B− | A− | 31 min | $96,076 |
| Mount Hope | under 2% | A− | C− | 40 min | $91,475 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Wallkill. Darker towns draw more of Wawayanda’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Wawayanda: questions
What is the median household income in Wawayanda?
$143,017 (±$22,894) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wawayanda?
5.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wawayanda?
34 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wawayanda work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wallkill (14%, 8 mi), New York City (13%, 57 mi), Goshen (9%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wawayanda walkable?
Wawayanda is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wawayanda without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wawayanda, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wawayanda
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.